ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,886, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SIEMENS ENERGY GLOBAL GMBH & Co. KG (Munich).
"Combustor for a gas turbine" was invented by Suresh Sadasivuni (Lincoln, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combustor (36) for a gas turbine, the combustor (36) comprising a combustor axis (44) about which is arranged in flow sequence a radial swirler (40), a pre-chamber (42) and a combustion chamber (38). The radial swirler (40) comprises a base plate (45), an annular array of swirler vanes (46), defining swirler slots (47), arranged around the base plate (45), a main fuel injector (48A, 48B) for injecting a main fuel and a pilot fuel ...